This Fourth Sunday of Lent is sometimes called "Refreshment Sunday," and was in earlier times meant to be a pause from the fasting and self-denial thatChristians observed for these forty days before Easter.

Millard FullerThe founder of Habitat for Humanity International has died at 74. Millard Fuller, a self-made millionaire, had a religious conversion at 29 and devoted the rest of his life to providing decent housing for the poor.

To the secular, these are stories about the power of forgiveness and the shot at a second chance. To the religious, they are modern parables that show how forgiveness leads to salvation and, ultimately, heaven.